Maybe Chris Christie could use an Obama hug

5:08 PM,
Jan. 13, 2014

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has fired a top aide who engineered political payback against a town mayor, saying she lied.

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KATHLEEN PARKER

In the days since revelations surfaced about New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's office orchestrating the now-infamous George Washington Bridge lane closings, I've had at least four different reactions.

Listed in chronological order, they were: He's dead; maybe not so bad if he didn't know anything; OMG, an elderly woman died! He's gone; latest and hardly least, Christie may emerge relatively unscathed as the media displace him as the villain.

On the train from New York to Washington last Thursday, two words continuously rose above the din: Chris Christie. The best summation of how the ...